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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1924
Page
9
A jumble of names and places shows visitors to Anamosa Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Manchester and Monticello with references to Miss Mary Aebi Margaret Becker and Mrs Hartman. It mentions Loecher's Lanigan McNeills Haw and Devlin Millinery selling hats and singer sewing machines plus Potter and Perlmutter items with several business visitors and tentative dates across Cedar Rapids Monticello and surrounding towns.
Community notices list visitors and engagements in Monticello and surrounding towns. People travel for visits to Ames, Davenport, Perry, Anamosa and Center Junction. Local businesses advertise hardware supplies and battery tests. Tax deadline approaches March 31 with Monticello State Bank handling lists.
Read about Coe and Cornell students visiting home in Monticello and area, local hardware ads for incubators and hover devices, a Rotary convention in Waterloo, nutrition plan meetings, and weather affecting travel. Community notes include upcoming basketball finals, house moves, Grinnell college Glee Club, Odd Fellows and Rebekah events, and election jitters around jury service and mayoral race.
District court proceedings note a high workload with Judge Anderson. Teresa OBrien sues Frederick Lees for 10000 damages after being struck by a car in Cas dam town after dark. Verdict returns 600 to plaintiff. defense cites contributory negligence and street geometry. Other cases include parole violation convict and Watters v Steenhoek attachment dispute. Next trials involve Ottley v Kiburz replevin and equity assignments fill the week.
Mrs Lyman Aldrich died in Manchester after severe burns from a house fire on Third Street. Her husband and two daughters Mrs Edgar Tharp and Mrs August Ahrendsen, plus a son William, survive. Services set at Shelly Chapel with interment planned in Castle Grove Cemetery once road conditions permit.
March events in Monticello include J A Doutrick opening a dry goods store, the Smiths moving to Monticello, Fagan joining Kempf drug store, and church plans for a new building. Estates sales, marriages, deaths, and school staff changes are noted, plus mumps health rules from the Iowa State Board of Health with 14 day isolation.
Gerke Bohlken died last Thursday morning at 6:20 at his daughter Adolph G Bohlken s home in Wayne township after a period of ill health and a paralytic stroke. Born November 19 1843 in Hesel Friesland Germany he was 80 years 4 months and 1 day old. He married Anna Kathrine Von Hagel on June 3 1870 and immigrated to the United States in 1876 settling in this vicinity. He is survived by four children two daughters Mrs Paul Jacobs and Mrs Adolph G Bohlken and son John Bohlken of Hastings Minnesota, 15 grandchildren and one great grandchild, a sister Mrs Mota Rickelsii of Rockwell City and a brother Henry Bohlken of Platteville Colorado. He lived with his daughter for eight years and was a member of St John s Evangelical Lutheran church. Funeral services were held at the Adolph Bohlken home and at St John s church conducted by Rev Paul T Gutknecht. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
Mrs Frank Densmore aged 78 died at her Edgewood home last Thursday March 13 after years of inflammatory rheumatism. Maiden name Nettie Peet born near Edgewood April 19 1861. She married Frank Densmore September 1 1881. three children L L Densmore Dentabon Minnesota Zoe Ellis McFarlin California Lou Carpenter Monticello Iowa. Funeral services Sunday at home conducted by Rev Artman with interment in Edgewood cemetery.
On Tuesday evening April 1 Cornell College Men's Glee Club presents a full concert at the Methodist church with tickets at 25 cents for children and 36 cents for adults. The program includes quartets solos and a comic opera sketch by club members. Tickets go on sale Monday with seating limited. Hutchinson Ice Cream Co opens its 17th factory in Monticello under Herman Schneider in the west end of a building bought by W L Hanssen. The plant uses brine cooling and can make 11 gallons at a time with a capacity of 800 gallons per store room and plans two trucks from Monticello this season and one operation nearby.
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